Etsy

http://www.etsy.com/

Type: Handmade marketplace Age: 1 Nationality: American Etsy is eBay with a soul - everything on the Brooklyn-based bazaar is handmade by one of its 40,000 vendors. But this isn't your mum's Christmas craft fair - it's at the leading edge of a movement sounding the death knell for generic, mass-produced design. That means custom clothing, accessories, housewares and more that's guaranteed never to appear in your local H&M or Ikea. The coolest innovation? Shopping by colour in the zooming Flash landscape.

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Here is a flash animation created by one of Etsy's founders, Jared Tarbell. This shows 300 of his favourite images from the Etsy store floating in space.